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Information Technology
Newsletter
January 2001, Table
of Contents
- Computer security @ home is especially
important if you use DSL or a cable modem.
- They break-in. Install a sniffer program. Watch out personal data!
- Email inboxes: POP or IMAP. Use IMAP
and access your inbox and other e-mail
- "folders" regardless of which computer you use to access your
e-mail.
- OIT recently received more disk storage space to handle your growing storage
- needs for e-mail and other digital files - so accounts get 20MB
more!
- Virtual Private Network will remove Library
barriers for remote users. We're
- testing VPN tools now; soon they'll be available from OIT Websites.
- Techmart enhancements: Dell B2B
for departments; and introducing Gateway
- hardware and Unique Software/Computers, including printers and scanners.
- Jan 25 TEL presentations: A Natural
and Cultural History of the Tallgrass Prairie and
- Web-based Autotutorial for Diagnostic Procedures in Large Animal Medicine
- U Libraries
Research: tricks and trends to help
you and your students keep up - including
- where to go on campus - such as, ABI/Inform and Vanderbilt news archive.
UCS Move Delayed Until March
Due to a delay in construction schedules, the UCS move to 2218 University
Avenue SE has been delayed until March. Visit the UCS Website where updates
will be posted as they become available: http://www.umn.edu/ucs
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